Lautaro Murúa

Lautaro Murúa

Born: December 29, 1926
Died: December 3, 1995
in Tacna, Chile
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Lautaro Murúa (Spanish pronunciation: [lauˈtaɾo muˈɾu.a]; 29 December 1926 Tacna, Chile - 3 December 1995 in Madrid) was a Chilean-born Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. 

Born in Chile, Murúa moved to Argentina at the beginning of the fifties. He studied architecture and fine arts before entering the film industry. He worked primarily as an actor and appeared in over 80 films between 1949 and his death in 1995 although he also directed a handful of important films such as Shunko, Alias Gardelito and La Raulito, all with stories usually revolving around social topics.

As an actor, Murúa participated in the 1960s film industry revival, acting in the movies of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Rodolfo Kuhn, Manuel Antín and David José Kohon.

He left to live in Spain for political reasons in the 1970s, and then he returned to Argentina to film several movies until sickness set in and he died in Spain in 1995.

Movies for Lautaro Murúa...

A Wall of Silence
Title: A Wall of Silence
Character: Bruno
Released: June 10, 1993
Type: Movie
A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.
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Scream of Stone
Title: Scream of Stone
Character: Estanciero
Released: October 3, 1991
Type: Movie
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.
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Title: Cosecharás tu siembra
Character: Carmine Spadaro
Released: April 8, 1991
Type: TV
The story takes place in the Sicily of the 30s and its protagonists, Giuliana (Luisa Kuliok) and Luca (Osvaldo Laport), are seen intermingled in the games of the mafia and local power.
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I, the Worst of All
Title: I, the Worst of All
Character: Archbishop
Released: August 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order to pursue her love of writing, Juana enters the convent and gains international renown. When the Inquisition comes, the local Vicereine becomes Juana's protectress and erotic muse, and soon begins a thrilling romance of startling passion and intensity.
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Poor Butterfly
Title: Poor Butterfly
Released: June 2, 1986
Type: Movie
A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.
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Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Title: Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Character: Gerardo
Released: November 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
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Nights Without Moons and Suns
Title: Nights Without Moons and Suns
Character: Maidana
Released: June 21, 1984
Type: Movie
A criminal escapes from a court, with help of three miscreants, to find his lifelong friend, who is terminally ill. The police officer catch knows there is a hidden loot involved.
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Thanks for the Fire
Title: Thanks for the Fire
Character: Edmundo Budiño
Released: April 5, 1984
Type: Movie
The failure of Budiño Ramon, who plans first murder of his father and is recognized after unable to carry it out, is due largely to the general attitude of a society that tolerates no dramatic gestures. However, the inadequacies of radical class, beliefs, feelings, profession and memory also plays a leading role in the drama.
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Funny Dirty Little War
Title: Funny Dirty Little War
Character: Mayor Guglielmini
Released: September 22, 1983
Type: Movie
A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.
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Power Game
Title: Power Game
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
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Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
Title: Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
Character: Perkins
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers.
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Paper Heart
Title: Paper Heart
Character: Mr. Segura
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Ups and downs of a news agency led by Antonio Borja, a veteran journalist formed during the Franco regime, with the help of his godson and protegé Tomás. The threat of economic bankruptcy, the appearance of Julia, a young journalist from last university generations, the background of the world of tabloids (tricks used by celebrities to remain so, reports sold exclusively by interested parties, photos of Stolen nudes that have been previously agreed) and what is behind the covers of magazines that weekly buy people eager for gossip form the rest of the plot.
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The Beasts' Carnival
Title: The Beasts' Carnival
Character: Don Simón
Released: December 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese assassins in hot pursuit, he takes refuge in the home of a local doctor and his two daughters who nurse him back to health and hide him from his pursuers, taking drastic and murderous measures to protect him... for they have plans of their own in store for their current guest.
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Girl with the Golden Panties
Title: Girl with the Golden Panties
Character: Luis Forest
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.
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Man on Pink Corner
Title: Man on Pink Corner
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator, who recounts the events of a particular night at a Villa Santa Rita bar and brothel. The clientele, including the narrator, spend the evening drinking and dancing the tango. Their festivities are interrupted by the arrival of a formidable stranger in black.
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Soldados
Title: Soldados
Character: El señor
Released: November 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
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Trout
Title: Trout
Character: Presidente
Released: February 1, 1978
Type: Movie
In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.
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La Rauliuto In Freedom
Title: La Rauliuto In Freedom
Character: El director
Released: October 6, 1977
Type: Movie
La Raulito travels to Madrid when she gets out of jail in Argentina to carve out a better future. Once in the Spanish capital, she participates in a documentary recounting his experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital.
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: Jefe de Roque
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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Alone
Title: Alone
Released: August 19, 1976
Type: Movie
A separated woman faces her future and revises her goals.
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No toquen a la nena
Title: No toquen a la nena
Character: Horacio
Released: August 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.
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Las sorpresas
Title: Las sorpresas
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: Movie
"The Surprises" is an episode film. In the episode Five Years of Life an unknown man and woman spend a night locked in a subway station. In Corazonada, a domestic employee takes revenge on her employer by making her son fall in love and in The Wells there is a love triangle in which the deceived husband is blind.
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Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf
Title: Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf
Character: Julián
Released: June 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon but this doesn't occur to him. When he's older, he meets the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he turns his back on his newfound love, but if he refuses, he'll become a wolf.
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Los chantas
Title: Los chantas
Character: Patricia's Father
Released: April 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.
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Los pocillos
Title: Los pocillos
Released: September 4, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Truce
Title: The Truce
Released: August 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
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Quebracho
Title: Quebracho
Character: Lamazón
Released: May 16, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Traitors
Title: The Traitors
Character: Benítez
Released: October 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, the film narrates the life of a fictitious Peronist union leader who, after years of militancy, gains power in the union during the 1960s and gradually becomes a corrupt bureaucrat.
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José María y María José (Una pareja de hoy)
Title: José María y María José (Una pareja de hoy)
Released: August 9, 1973
Type: Movie
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La revolución
Title: La revolución
Released: April 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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Heroína
Title: Heroína
Released: June 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.
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Nosotros los monos
Title: Nosotros los monos
Released: October 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Following the life of Pampas boxer Mario Paladino, who died in the ring, this documentary delves into boxing as a job opportunity for men from the interior of the country.
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Un guapo del 900
Title: Un guapo del 900
Released: September 30, 1971
Type: Movie
The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.
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El destino
Title: El destino
Released: September 30, 1971
Type: Movie
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Argentinian Until Death
Title: Argentinian Until Death
Released: May 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Story that takes place during the so-called War of Paraguay or War of the Triple Alliance.
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Crónica de una señora
Title: Crónica de una señora
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Following the death of a close friend, a woman caught in an unhappy marriage looks for ways to improve her life.
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Title: Alta comedia
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
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The Knight of the Sword
Title: The Knight of the Sword
Character: Gen. Bernardo O'Higgins
Released: March 25, 1970
Type: Movie
The life story of Argentine independence hero Jose de San Martin.
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Invasion
Title: Invasion
Character: Herrera
Released: October 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders.
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La frontera olvidada
Title: La frontera olvidada
Released: January 2, 1969
Type: Movie
A young officer recently arrived from Buenos Aires takes charge of a military base on the edge of the desert.
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Martín Fierro
Title: Martín Fierro
Character: Sgt. Cruz
Released: July 4, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
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Las pirañas
Title: Las pirañas
Character: Carlos
Released: October 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness.
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Los traidores de San Ángel
Title: Los traidores de San Ángel
Released: October 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest and enter a monastery thought to be sympathetic with rebel guerrillas. The release of the film coincided with real-life events, as Catholic priests continued to be the victims of government persecution throughout Latin America.
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Fuelle querido
Title: Fuelle querido
Character: Self (voice)
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Una máscara para Ana
Title: Una máscara para Ana
Released: December 15, 1966
Type: Movie
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Todo sol es amargo
Title: Todo sol es amargo
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
When a group of terrorists hijack a train, the various passengers relive their memories.
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The Eavesdropper
Title: The Eavesdropper
Character: Hernán Ramallo
Released: September 1, 1966
Type: Movie
When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners - immigrants and zarzuela players - plan an attack on the president, he reports them to the police. In his adventure, he leaves behind a girlfriend and a lover, and ends up sharing his life with a disoriented girl.
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Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes
Title: Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes
Character: Dr. Romay
Released: August 19, 1965
Type: Movie
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Pajarito Gómez
Title: Pajarito Gómez
Character: Gravini
Released: August 4, 1965
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the life and career of a popular singer: his humble origins, his rise to fame, and his exploitation by the media.
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El reñidero
Title: El reñidero
Character: Vicente
Released: June 8, 1965
Type: Movie
When a gangster is murdered, the victim's daughter sets out to track down her father's killer. She soon suspects her friend and her own mother may have been involved in the murder plot, in this heavy-handed and tragic crime drama.
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El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
Title: El octavo infierno, cárcel de mujeres
Character: Bermúdez
Released: August 20, 1964
Type: Movie
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Paula Cautiva
Title: Paula Cautiva
Character: Guillermo
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her.
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A Long Silence
Title: A Long Silence
Character: Voice
Released: July 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Short documentary about "life" in Buenos Aires' Borda Hospital.
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The Venerable Ones
Title: The Venerable Ones
Character: Lucas Méndez
Released: June 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love begins to delve into the macabre logic of the group.
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Racconto
Title: Racconto
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Dar la cara
Title: Dar la cara
Character: Escalante
Released: November 29, 1962
Type: Movie
Three boys from very different backgrounds who have just finished their military service must face the complex social reality of Argentina.
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Odd Number
Title: Odd Number
Released: November 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Two brothers quarrel for the love of a woman. One of them falls ill and dies; the other one marries her. The couple’s relationship falters in Paris due to the involvement of a reproaching mother, who still acts as if the dead brother were alive and living with her.
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Libertad bajo palabra
Title: Libertad bajo palabra
Character: Ernesto
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie
For good behavior, four prisoners are released for 24 hours.
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Three Times Ana
Title: Three Times Ana
Character: Renner
Released: April 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.
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Alias Gardelito
Title: Alias Gardelito
Character: Ingeniero
Released: January 2, 1961
Type: Movie
The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.
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Shunko
Title: Shunko
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.
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Fin de fiesta
Title: Fin de fiesta
Character: Guastavino
Released: June 23, 1960
Type: Movie
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
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In Burning Darkness
Title: In Burning Darkness
Released: June 4, 1959
Type: Movie
In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.
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La caída
Title: La caída
Character: Lucas
Released: February 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."
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What We Love
Title: What We Love
Character: Eduardo Núñez
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A writer achieves fame thanks to his great persistence and gives up an affair for love of his family.
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Detrás de un largo muro
Title: Detrás de un largo muro
Character: Pedro Maidana
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A young girl from a small town migrates to the capital of Buenos Aires, only to find a home in the slum area of the city.
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The Kidnapper
Title: The Kidnapper
Character: Patrick
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.
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Demasiado jóvenes
Title: Demasiado jóvenes
Released: March 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Adventures and misadventures of the innocent love between two young students.
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The House of the Angel
Title: The House of the Angel
Character: Pablo Aguirre
Released: June 25, 1957
Type: Movie
A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual nuances of some adult relationships, she is not too clear on her rights, his intentions, or the consequences when her father's best friend starts to lust after her.
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Enigma de mujer
Title: Enigma de mujer
Character: Dr. Ricardo de Angelis
Released: September 27, 1956
Type: Movie
A series of anecdotes exposed from the point of view of a Samaritan woman who tries to fix the problems of the neighbors.
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Graciela
Title: Graciela
Character: Román Aliaga
Released: May 10, 1956
Type: Movie
A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.
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La simuladora
Title: La simuladora
Character: Luis Fontana
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
To avoid imprisonment, a woman pretends to be crazy after killing the man who blackmailed her sister.
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Concert for a tear
Title: Concert for a tear
Released: August 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A young woman passionate about music leaves everything for it, putting aside her family and a lover.
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La delatora
Title: La delatora
Character: Alejo
Released: June 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Crime-picture dealing with car thieves.
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Llampo de sangre
Title: Llampo de sangre
Released: August 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Based on Oscar Castro's novel rtp slot, the film is set in the El Encanto mine, in the interior of Rancagua, where prospectors and barreteros dig the bowels of the earth in search of hidden riches.
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La Hechizada
Title: La Hechizada
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Baltasar, a young man in his twenties, is sent by his father to live with his aunt Dolores, an elderly widow and childless widow, on the Las Pataguas farm. There he meets his neighbors, the Araneda family, owners of the El Pantano farm and parents of the beautiful Humilde, with whom Balthazar falls in love. But the girl is "bewitched" by Saúl Araneda, her seductive cousin, whom the locals consider dangerously jealous.
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Surcos de sangre
Title: Surcos de sangre
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.
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Esperanza
Title: Esperanza
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
The story of the first colony of immigrants to arrive in the province of Santa Fe, in Argentina.
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El paso maldito
Title: El paso maldito
Released: March 15, 1949
Type: Movie
It narrates the misadventures of a bad boss (Arturo Gonzálvez) who falls in love with a poor girl (Chela Bon), harming a good young man (Lautaro Murúa)